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Affordable Housing Summit
Special guests from the Revelstoke Community Housing Society, Whistler Housing Authority, District of Tofino, Resort Municipality of Sun Peaks, Town of Banff, Town of Canmore and Sicamous Housing Committee will spend time sharing their affordable housing models.
Following the presentations, there was Q&A for the audience to ask specific questions. Not all of the questions were answered due to time constraints. We are happy to provide the responses to the unanswered questions in the Q&A in the column on the right.
Affordable Housing Summit - Livestream of March 9, 2023
Affordable Housing Summit Organizer Interview
Following the summit, Chief Administrative Officer Evan Parliament and Mayor Sulz recapped the process in the interview below.
Housing Summit Apres
Community stakeholders gathered with members of Council, City staff and Housing Summit presenters at the Community Economic Development meeting space following the Affordable Housing Summit. The Housing Summit Après event was hosted by the Business and Visitor Info Centre partners with refreshments provided by Tourism Revelstoke, and enabled affordable housing proponents to meet in-person with each other to share proposed initiatives, best practices and next steps. In addition to those named above, attendees included Board members representing the Economic Development Commission, Tourism Revelstoke, Chamber of Commerce, Community Futures, Revelstoke Community Housing Society, Community Connections, and other organizations supporting affordable housing initiatives.
Click on the Q&A to reveal the full list and answers provided by City staff as well as presenters.
- In your opinion, what overall effect do short term rentals have on the community's affordable housing markets?
- How much of Revelstoke's housing issue is a missing middle problem? What approaches are being considered to address these housing gaps? (Low vs median income)
- How do we regulate vacation home buyers inflating the real estate market? Is it possible to enact zoning restrictions in some areas to primary home buyers only?
- Why not more mobile home parks?
- How much is Whistler’s cash in leu for housing? Is it a flat fee or based on different metrics?
- With employee housing, what happens if an employee loses their job or want to leave a job. Are they homeless?
- If Whistler took 30 years to mature, how can we do something in 10 years or less without crashing in the process? What can be adopted now to get us started?
- For each of the speakers who are sharing details of a well-funded housing organization; where would your community be without that dedicated housing entity?
- What is the status of the BC housing project on Downie Street? What can be done to bring this to reality sooner?
- WHA : can you expand on how affordability is maintained in perpetuity? Does WHA retain an equity share?
- We need to develop micro-home communities in town and in the CSRD. Problem solved.
- What consideration has been given to how gig economy workers with often fluctuating annual incomes fit into qualifying parameters for affordable housing?
- How are you, as a Resort Community, leveraging OAP/MRDT taxes for affordable housing? Tools, models ?
- What kind of anti affordable housing campaigning is Tofino experiencing and why? How are you handling this?
- What can the tourism industry, which is driving up costs, do better to support affordable housing?
- Can prefab/modular home construction play a role in affordable housing in Revelstoke?
- How do you protect against base population displacement?
- How did the communities balance the availability of housing vs short term rentals, bylaw enforcement costs vs revenue from OAP/MRDT?